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Authorities of Medical College Hospital and Charleston County Hospital, initially backed by the state, took the position early in the dispute that they could not legally bargain with a union of employees paid out of public funds. Gradually the anti-union tradition crumbled under strong pressure. A 9 p.m. curfew enforced by National Guardsmen cut the spring tourist trade. A Negro boycott of white businesses also did economic damage to the city. National publicity was mostly unfavorable and the strikers drew support from national labor and civil rights groups...
When a pall of tear gas failed to budge the rioters, the army flew in troops and additional ammunition, while jets fired off warning bursts of machine-gun fire overhead. Finally, the army ordered soldiers to shoot anyone appearing on the streets without permission during a dusk-to-dawn curfew. But neither curfew nor martial law nor dire warnings could halt the general strike next day. In Córdoba, riots broke out anew, and police opened fire on a crowd of 2,000 marchers. In the rest of the country, the strike brought all commerce, industry and transportation...
...students took up the high schoolers' cause only to find themselves excluded from the school by a court order. They vented their anger by pelting whites who drove their cars past the university campus. Police, sent to the campus to enforce a curfew, were then fired upon by snipers, and the dangerous situation grew even worse when Freshman Willie E. Grimes, 20, was found on the campus shot to death...
...black policeman triggered a night of looting and property damage, an all-black volunteer patrol worked with the police to check violence. Wearing yellow armbands for identification, the volunteers preceded the police in their sweeps through ghetto streets, warning residents to obey the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew imposed by Mayor Hugh Addonizio. The disorder abated quickly, without causing sympathy tremors in other New Jersey cities. In San Francisco, black clergymen, labor officials and professional people went out into the neighborhoods to help cool rising tempers following a police raid on Black Panther headquarters...
...night after Martin Luther King's death, Cincinnati had issued a curfew which threatened to punish violators with up to a year in jail and a $500 fine. Though most of those convicted had not heard about the curfew, ninety were processed and sentenced in a bizarre mass trial held the night of the arrests. When Gilligan called the trials a joke, press and public reacted hysterically. "Arson and rape" became the decisive ingredients in his defeat next November...